Think on Your Feet®
▪ Make every conversation count –with structure and purpose.
▪ Answer ad-hoc questions with impact –give great responses to tricky questions.
▪ Learn to speak with clarity, brevity and impact.
Face-to-face and online delivery:
▪ 2 day workshop – in-house and open public.
▪ Training for trainers – in-house and open public.
▪ Optional 1-2-1 coaching available
Do you need to improve your personal impact when put on-the-spot? Do you hate facing tough questions? Are you an expert in your job, but sometimes struggle to keep your communication brief and to the point?
There is a saying that “you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression”. Influencing colleagues, clients or your managers is vital to ensure career progression and the successful implementation of your projects. We need to get our message across and respond quickly when challenged on screen, on the phone, in the boardroom, or even in media situations.
This demands clarity, brevity and impact - taught in our Think on Your Feet® workshop.
90% of our communication and influence at work consists of ‘informal’, ad-hoc conversations – in meetings, on the phone or around the water cooler.
Yet budgets are traditionally spent on ‘formal’ presentation training, which only helps with ‘planned and prepared’ communication skills that are not used every day.
Think on Your Feet® redresses this balance by giving you easy to remember, simple to use tools to structure your thoughts for clear, concise, ‘on-the-spot’ conversations.
Taught in 27 countries, Indigo is proud to be the authorised UK distributor of the full suite of Think on Your Feet® communications programmes – including Writing Dynamics™ , The Skilled Presenter™ and The Complete Presenter™ .
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Think on Your Feet® provides the techniques to speak spontaneously with clarity and impact, in a wide range of demanding situations.
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“Developing the skill to communicate better is SO universally applicable and useful. I wish this course were mandatory and I'd done it 20 years earlier!”
Multinational Technology Company
The Think on Your Feet® approach emphasises structure when communicating, ensuring ideas are presented in ways that will be understood and remembered.
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Whether addressing one person or fifty, Think on Your Feet® provides the techniques to zero in on issues, organise ideas and speed up preparation and response time.
On completion of the workshop, participants will be able to do the following:
✓ Answer questions quickly and coherently, especially when under fire.
✓ Structure ideas simply and persuasively.
✓ Use six basic organisation formats to focus communication and display analysis.
✓ Flesh-out ideas with memorable examples
✓ Avoid common communication traps
✓ Handle objections positively
✓ Use “bridging” strategies to clarify questions, defuse issues and buy time
✓ Turn nervousness into energy.
✓ Use techniques to identify listeners’ hopes, fears and background knowledge.
✓ Anticipate questions and prepare answers
✓ Organise ideas while talking
And above all... GET TO THE POINT AND BE REMEMBERED
“Whilst I tend to feel nervous in meetings/presenting, I often come across as confident and I always get the information I want to across to my audience, but I don't always feel like I have control (unless it is a presentation I've had time to prepare for).
This will help me to think on my feet.” Central Government
Think on Your Feet® is designed for anyone concerned about communications, including senior executives, managers, sales and marketing professionals, technical specialists, consultants, financial analysts, public affairs experts, and training professionals.
▪ Anyone who needs to be clear, convincing and memorable when speaking to others.
▪ Anyone who doesn’t relish the idea of speaking in public, dealing with difficult questions or being put on-the-spot.
▪ Anyone who needs to demonstrate leadership qualities, convince and persuade others, and be acknowledged as a leader.
Public workshops are the best method for training individuals and small groups. Delivered online and across the UK, they provide a great opportunity for different companies and individuals to come together and learn the tools.
In-house workshops are the ideal opportunity to train teams and whole departments within your organisation. Providing clarity of training focus and excellent team building opportunities. It reduces delegate travel, workshop cost and environmental impact as we train online or at your premises, worldwide.
